related works
Cascade (Symphony Nº 2) : Concerto for orchestra / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
piss 2fl 2ob eh 3cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 2trb-t trb-b tp timp perc hp str
Stanzas of Charles II : voice and small orchestra, 1966 / Alexander Voormolen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar 1200 0000 cel str
Belsazer / muziek: Henriette Bosmans, tekst: Heinrich Heine
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 3222 4220 timp perc cel hp str
Friesland : voor lage stem en orkest, op. 44 / vier gedichten van Bertus Aafjes, Hans Schouwman
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
low 2222 1000 perc hp str
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Other authors:
Knehans, Katarina
(Text writer/Librettist)
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans